Abstract:
The present study was conducted to investigate the existence of any possible relationship between multiple intelligences (MI) and vocabulary learning strategies. The participants in this study were 90 students of Bandar Abbas English language Institutes. The instruments for data collection consisted of MI questionnaire and Vocabulary learning strategies questionnaire. After gathering the data, correlation and regression analyses were done on the obtained data. The results indicate that among 5 categories of strategies (determination, social, memory, cognitive, and metacognitive), determination, social and memory strategies can be strongly predicted by bodily, natural and interpersonal intelligences, respectively; while the natural intelligence is found to be a negative predictor of social strategies. More specifically, there is a significant relationship between several categories of strategies and different domains of intelligences. Moreover, among 5 categories of strategies, there is a significant relation between determination, memory and social strategies on the one hand, and several domains of MI on the other.
Machine summary:
In the present study, the relationship between multiple intelligences and learners' vocabulary learning strategies is investigated.
The second objective is whether or not there is any relationship between any of the multiple intelligence types and vocabulary learning strategies used by Intermediate EFL learners in Bandar Abbas Institutes.
Research Question One: Is there any relationship between any category of strategies and any of the multiple intelligence type used by Intermediate EFL learners in Bandar Abbas Institutes?
Intelligence (also called intellect) is an umbrella term used to describe a property of the mind that encompasses many related abilities, such as the capacities to reason, to plan, to solve problems, to think abstractly, to comprehend ideas, to use language, and to learn.
Moreover, learners employ different strategies when dealing with language learning in general and vocabulary acquisition in particular.
Moreover, the instruments used for data collection, including the vocabulary learning strategies questionnaire and the multiple intelligences questionnaire, are presented.
Table 4: Stepwise Multiple Regression Between MI & Social Strategies {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} Excluded Variables Variables Beta In t Sig. Linguistic Intelligence .
Finally, correlations were run in order to find the amount of relationship in terms of vocabulary learning strategies and each type of multiple intelligences (Table 6).
The results of regression indicate that among 5 categories of strategies (determination, social, memory, cognitive, and metacognitive) determination, social and memory strategies have stronger relationship with bodily, natural and interpersonal intelligences respectively; Even though the "r" value is not that high, the significant correlation cannot be ignored.